March 6, 2008 - There's no need for a Venn diagram to recognize the serious crossover audience for videogame fans and Dungeons & Dragons fans. Both mediums -- videogames and pen-and-paper games -- are about the wonder of escape. Thanks to the inability to replicate lifelike scenarios, the earliest videogames were pure fantasy that relied on massive leaps of imagination. And that held true for D&D gamers, required to conjure up battles with dragons in their collective imaginations while trafficking in character sheets and twenty-sided die. So, it's no surprise that the Dungeons & Dragons universe has served as inspiration for a number of videogames, dating all the way back to 1982's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons for the Intellivision.

November 25, 1996 - Hoping to capitalize on those geeks and former geeks that love role
playing, Acclaim has released Iron & Blood, a fighter with a TSR license.
People familiar with D & D will recognize the bulk of the 16 fighters.
Elves, clerics, knights, and a host of evil beasties are all at the ready.